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特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·马斯克的薪酬方案在德拉瓦州最高法院于周五晚间恢复，该方案价值1390亿美元。
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德拉瓦州最高法院恢复了2018年授予特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·马斯克的一个巨额薪酬方案，该方案曾两次被低级法院法官撤销。
该方案授予马斯克选择购买303百万经拆分调整的股份，根据周五的收盘股价，该方案价值1390亿美元。德拉瓦州衡平法院法官卡萨琳·麦科密克负责监督此案，她认为尽管特斯拉股东两次批准了该薪酬计划，但该方案的规模对股东来说是不公平的。

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Key Takeaways
Grocery prices have climbed during President Donald Trump's administration, contrary to his claim this week that they are "falling rapidly."
Although overall food prices are rising, they are doing so more slowly than they did earlier in the year.

President Donald Trump says grocery prices are "falling rapidly" under his economic policies, but the government's own data says otherwise.

On Wednesday evening, Trump took to the airways to defend his economic policies, responding to criticism from Democrats and others that the cost of living has risen too quickly under his administration, and has been exacerbated by his tariff campaign.1 Trump said he is tackling inflation, blamed his predecessor, Joe Biden, for the problem, and singled out groceries as an example of his success.

"Democrat [sic] politicians also sent the cost of groceries soaring, but we are solving that too," Trump said. "The price of a Thanksgiving turkey was down 33 percent compared to the Biden last year. The price of eggs is down 82 percent since March and everything else is falling rapidly and it's not done yet, but boy, are we making progress."
Reports on the price of turkey are mixed. An annual report on Thanksgiving prices from the American Farm Bureau lobbying group showed frozen turkey cost $1.34 a pound in 2025, down 16% from 2024.2 However, the Consumer Price Index category that includes turkey ("Other uncooked poultry including turkey") was up 0.8% in November compared to 2024.3

Egg prices are one category that is down, after jumping sky-high in 2024 due to a bird flu pandemic that is now fading.

Still, other items are clearly up quite a bit. Ground beef is up 16% compared to last year, while coffee has risen 35% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.45
Bureau of Labor Statistics via Federal Reserve Economic Data. “Average Price: Coffee, 100%, Ground Roast, All Sizes (Cost per Pound/453.6 Grams) in U.S. City Average (APU0000717311).”

But grocery inflation is typically measured by combining prices for many products rather than singling out individual items. And overall grocery prices were up 1.9% over the 12 months ending in November, according to the Consumer Price Index.6 That's down from 2.7% in September, but still above the 1.6% annual growth for grocery prices in November 2024.
In other words, grocery prices are not in fact falling. However they are climbing at a slower pace than earlier in the year.

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The White House. “President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation.” 5:41American Farm Bureau Federation. “Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner Declines.”Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Data.” Use data tool to look at CPI data.Bureau of Labor Statistics via Federal Reserve Economic Data. “Average Price: Ground Beef, 100% Beef (Cost per Pound/453.6 Grams) in U.S. City Average.”Bureau of Labor Statistics via Federal Reserve Economic Data. “Average Price: Coffee, 100%, Ground Roast, All Sizes (Cost per Pound/453.6 Grams) in U.S. City Average (APU0000717311).”Bureau of Labor Statistics via Federal Reserve Economic Data. “Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Food at Home in U.S. City Average.”

抗议者在2025年12月19日于孟加拉国达卡的孟加拉国主要日报《Prothom Alo》和《The Daily Star》办公室放火，因为有关Inkilab Mancha召集人沙里夫·奥斯曼·哈迪去世的消息传出。
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在青年领袖沙里夫·奥斯曼·哈迪周四晚去世后，孟加拉国多个城市爆发了激烈的抗议活动，并对国家选举前进一步动乱表示担忧。
哈迪，一名Inquilab Mancha平台的发言人和一般选举候选人，上周五在达卡启动他的选举活动时，被蒙面袭击者枪击头部。他最初在当地医院接受治疗，随后被飞往新加坡进行进一步的医疗护理，在生命支持下度过六天后去世。

Russia’s wartime economy is getting weaker as the war in Ukraine approaches its fourth anniversary, according to a recent report by PeaceRep, a research group led by the University of Edinburgh. The report, Against the Clock? Why Russia’s War Economy is Running Out of Time, finds that Russia is being forced to spend aggressively on the war, while its earning abilities have dropped significantly.
The funding source used to finance much of this spending, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, also looks to be dwindling. According to the report, around 76% of the fund’s US$148 billion (£110 billion) pre-war liquid reserves was spent within the first three years of the war.
In an article in May, I argued that Russian leader Vladimir Putin could afford a drawn-out war because he had spent more than 20 years preparing for it. Under Putin’s leadership Russia has consistently posted budget surpluses, amassed foreign currency reserves and reduced its reliance on western debt.
The question now is how far can that preparation carry the Russian economy? For the moment, it appears Russia can still sustain the war. But it can do so only by drawing heavily on earlier buffers, such as foreign reserves and the sovereign wealth fund, while diverting an ever-growing share of national resources towards the military.

The strain on Russia’s economy is being compounded by mounting external pressures. The EU, which is currently the largest buyer of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) and pipeline gas, announced in early December that it would end its imports of Russian LNG in 2026. Imports of pipeline gas will end the following year.
But Russia’s revenue streams have remained relatively resilient throughout the war. Russia has diversified its exports of crude oil, with China now accounting for around 47%, India about 38% and Turkey roughly 6%. These revenue flows, together with earlier economic preparation, have helped sustain the three core areas that shape any wartime economy: industrial output, fiscal capacity and social resilience.
According to 2024 analysis by the Centre for Economic Policy Research, war-related output in Russia surged by about 60% in the early years of the conflict. That expansion still underpins Russia’s industrial base today. War-related industries have accounted for almost all of manufacturing growth since the invasion.
Energy revenues also continue to bolster the federal budget, though the government is relying increasingly on domestic borrowing and reserve drawdowns to fund deficits. And on the household side, higher wages in military-linked sectors and targeted government payments to the families of mobilised soldiers have helped soften the impact of inflation. Income from mobilisation has even lifted household savings, particularly in poorer regions of Russia.
Yet this appearance of stability reflects an economy being stretched rather than strengthened. Defence-related activity now dominates manufacturing, drawing labour and capital away from civilian sectors. Civilian industries are losing workers, machinery and investment, which is deepening structural stagnation and will make future economic recovery more difficult. What looks like resilience is, in practice, a system operating under growing strain.
Russia’s unsustainable economy
The central question now is how long can Russia’s remaining buffers support its militarised economy? Labour shortages have become structural rather than temporary, and inflationary pressures have persisted even amid weakening growth. Demographic pressures add to this squeeze, with mobilisation, emigration and long-term population decline shrinking the workforce available to both industry and the military.
Technological limits are tightening too. Export controls have cut Russia off from many advanced components, increasing reliance on parallel imports and domestic substitutes that are often more expensive or less reliable. This is slowing production and constraining the sophistication of new military systems.
A notable shift is also emerging in how the war is financed. With industry and labour close to capacity, and the EU phasing out Russian gas, the government can no longer rely on economic expansion or strong energy revenues to support the budget.
The new three-year budget, submitted to parliament in late September, raises VAT and expands the tax burden on small businesses. This will pass more of the cost of the war on to households and firms, a model that will only remain viable while the public tolerates higher taxes and gradually declining living standards. That makes its long-term sustainability uncertain.

How long Russia can continue fighting will also depend on forces beyond its borders. China and India are essential buyers of Russian oil, slowing the point at which fiscal pressures fully tighten. Meanwhile, tighter US and EU sanctions are constraining Russia’s access to advanced technology and complicating the logistics of foreign trade.
Geopolitics adds another layer of uncertainty. The latest US-drafted peace proposal for Ukraine echoes several longstanding Russian demands, while a major corruption scandal in Kyiv has weakened Ukraine’s political position at a sensitive moment.
These developments do not remove Russia’s economic vulnerabilities. But they do shape the environment in which Moscow navigates them, lowering the political cost of continuing the war even as economic pressures rise.
Russia’s war economy is not collapsing, but neither is it stable. It survives by pushing strain into the future – into labour markets, public finances and the everyday lives of Russian households.
The key question is how long the system can keep absorbing these pressures before they begin to reinforce one another. In that sense, Russia’s wartime economy still has time – but it is increasingly time borrowed from the future.

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